By Daniel Vila, in People’s
Weekly World, 6 December 1997. The global stock
market crash of October 27, precipitated by the Asian
markets collapse, will long have effect the world
over. Soon after the crash, financial troubles struck
Thailand, then quickly spread to the Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Korea. Japan is the big
question.

By Alan Woods, 6 January 1998. Excerpts from an article
in which Woods notes the tendency in the West to downplay
the significance of the Asian financial crisis for Europe
and the U.S. This speech therapy recalls the Crash
of ’29.